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North Korea military parade features floats and flowers, not missiles

9/9/2018, 5:03:52 PM
With no long-range missiles on display, North Korea staged a military parade on Sunday focused on conventional arms, peace and economic development as it marked the 70th anniversary of the country's founding. ✔ Trump on Twitter quoted a Fox News description of the event without long-range nuclear missiles as a sign of North Korea’s commitment to denuclearize ✔ All Koreans should join forces to accomplish unification in our generation ✔ Unification is the only way Koreans can survive, said an editorial in North Korea’s party newspaper Rodong Sinmun ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles


Venezuela denounces U.S. military interference after NYT report

9/9/2018, 4:43:16 PM
Venezuela's foreign minister accused the United States of seeking an intervention and supporting military conspiracies, following a report U.S. officials had met with Venezuelan military officers to discuss a coup plot. ✔ REUTERS/Denis Balibouse/File Photo Garrett Marquis, a spokesman for the National Security Council, did not deny the report, but said in a statement that the U.S. policy preference for a peaceful, orderly return to democracy in Venezuela remains unchanged


Man dies 'in a fight with Afghans' in Germany weeks after protests

9/9/2018, 7:56:41 PM
The 22-year-old suffered heart failure and died after a fight broke out in a playground in Koethen, east Germany. Police said the 'concrete circumstances' of the death are still unknown. ✔ 'The reasons for, and concrete circumstances of, the incident are not yet known.'   At dusk in Koethen, both far-right and left-wing protesters began assembling to demonstrate ✔ Interior Minister Horst Seehofer, of the Bavarian Christian Social Union (CSU), on Wednesday said: 'Migration is the mother of all problems.'


Michael Palin, our King of the North

9/9/2018, 4:03:41 PM
He’s given his whimsical observations on every corner of the world but, as Michael Palin tells David Stephenson, stepping into the secretive society of North Korea was his most compelling adventure this yet. ✔ Palin is the master of observation, having taken us on many famous TV journeys ✔ He was one of the famous Pythons of course, who reigned supreme in the world of silly comedy in the late 1970s ✔ But none of their shows ever made it to North Korea ✔ He reveals the song is called Where Are You, Dear General


Perspective | The tragic death of an Afghan journalist with a different kind of courage

9/9/2018, 6:07:41 PM
Samim Faramarz was a compassionate, open-minded man whose country desperately needed those qualities. ✔ (Pamela Constable/The Washington Post) (Pam Constable/TWP) What Samim yearned for above all was knowledge ✔ Read more: Chaos grips Kabul as thousands of gunmen take to the streets Weeks away, critical Afghan elections threatened by violence, claims of manipulation ‘It was a horror scene’: Scores of Afghan students killed in Kabul suicide bombing aimed at minority Shiites


Brazil's democracy is quite literally under assault

9/9/2018, 6:16:07 PM
In her presidential weekly briefing, Samantha Vinograd writes that the stabbing of Jair Bolsanaro, a Brazilian presidential frontrunner, portends a dangerous cycle of violence in South America's largest country. ✔ (CNN)Every week, I offer a glimpse of the kind of intelligence assessments that are likely to come across the desk of the President of the United States ✔ But just because he didn't display them and isn't testing them doesn't mean they do not exist ✔ Once Idlib is taken, Assad and Putin will feel more empowered to do what they want throughout the country, which will be solidly under their control


Dozens killed in air strikes in Yemen’s Hodeida after peace talks collapse

9/9/2018, 5:15:12 PM
Clashes and air strikes have left 84 people dead around Yemen's Red Sea port city of Hodeida since the collapse of UN-brokered peace talks, hospital sources said Sunday. ✔ Dozens of rebels and at least 17 soldiers had been wounded ✔ In 2014, the Huthis seized control of a string of Red Sea ports and the capital, driving the government out of Sanaa and the president into exile ✔ Nearly 10,000 people have since been killed and the country now stands at the brink of famine


U.S. energy secretary to visit Moscow September 11-13: Russian media

9/9/2018, 5:40:32 PM
U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry will visit Moscow from Sept. 11 to 13, Russian media reported on Sunday, citing a diplomatic source. ✔ 11 to 13, Russian media reported on Sunday, citing a diplomatic source ✔ According to the daily Kommersant, the two ministers plan to discuss Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline project to carry Russian gas to Germany across the Baltic Sea, an initiative that Trump has harshly criticized ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles


Watergate's Woodward says Times Trump op-ed not up to his standards

9/9/2018, 5:04:33 PM
Bob Woodward, the author of a new book describing how top aides to U.S. President Donald Trump have attempted to limit what they saw as his dangerous behavior, said on Sunday he would not have published the anonymous op-ed by an administration official that appeared in the New York Times last week. ✔ People who work for him are worried - that he will sign things or give orders that threaten the national security or financial security of the country or of the world, Woodward told ‘CBS Sunday Morning.’ Woodward in the book recounts how Defense Secretary James Mattis had to explain to Trump why the United States pays $3.5 billion a year to station 28,000 troops in South Korea, telling the president it was a key line of defense against North Korea to prevent World War Three


Drones and gymnasts: North Korean 'Mass Games' return with messages...

9/9/2018, 4:43:13 PM
With a formation of glowing drones, lasers and stadium-sized gymnastics shows, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un relaunched the "Mass Games" on Sunday in a pageant that declared that "waves" of international sanctions would break against the strength of North Korea's self-reliance. ✔ Other slogans announced an era of great change when .. ✔ Slideshow (5 Images) Negotiations over North Korea’s nuclear weapons and missiles has been in doubt in recent weeks as both Pyongyang and Washington accused the other of delays ✔ We still have to wait and see what is next, but step by step there may be movement ✔ Our Standards:The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles


Johnson heralds battle for future of Conservative party

9/9/2018, 5:29:20 PM
undefined ✔ Mrs May’s allies insist she would in any event fight to stay on as prime minister and they are confident she would win; her critics would have to assemble 158 MPs half the parliamentary party to defeat her in a confidence vote ✔ It sounds like extracts might be released, said one person who had seen the initial report


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